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Terms Of Service

Here are our simple terms of service... basically you be good and not do anything malicious and we will strive to provide an amazing service.

We will host your apps on a best effort basis. You understand that your apps have the possibility of being lost and you have responsibility to backup your stuff.

You agree to not create apps that are unlawful... including and not limited to using other peoples copyrighted works without their permission.

You agree that our total liability against and any all damages are not to exceed the total of your last payment for service.

You agree that we can terminate your service at anytime for any reason and we will refund your last payment.

We agree to give you as complete refund within 30 days upon initiation of service should you be dissatisfied. After 30 days, there is no refund available to you.

See.. our TOS is simple to understand and read. To date, we have yet to terminate anyone for any reason. Lets keep the good karma going!

Brand:

This app is public. Click here

Note: You can only delete empty folders.

Warning: delete msg

Are you sure you want to delete your app?

Warning: delete msg

Are you sure you want to delete your folder?

delete msg

Edit Label Name:

You can rename or duplicate your app which will give it a new URL.

Operation Type:

Enter New Name Of App:

NOTE: Renaming or duplicating apps is a somewhat slow process and is proportional to the number of images in your app. Be patiented while the rename process occurs.

Enter New Name Of Folder:

Folders can contain letters, numbers and spaces.

Please enter the name of your app.

Name

[optional] Use Your Template:[optional] Use Shared Template:

You can use a template as a starting point for your App, click on the button to the right of the Use Shared Template box to show available templates. Refer to the Knowledgebase article on templates for more details.

Click the to select a template. Click to view an example of the template. Click for more information about the template and its usage.

This is a new feature and we will be adding templates over time.

Name

Description

More Info

An app that has a gallery and at the bottom, has a form that clients can submit to get more information.

Testimonial

An app that has a form that solicits a testimonial from your clients

Models Wanted

An app that has a form for high school seniors to submit an application form for your model program. It has an auto-reply email that is sent when the form is submitted.

Model Release

An app that has a form for a model release. Handy when you are on the go and don't have your usual paperwork.

You can migrate a version 5 app into version 6 by migrating the photos from the version 5 app into this gallery.

Enter the app you wish to migrate. If your version 5 app has the same brand as this one, just enter the app name, otherwise you can specify the brand and app using the syntax: brandname/appname

IMPORTANT: When you migrate the photos, the version 5 app will stop working and redirect people to this version 6 app automatically. Be sure to publish this app after import.

Display:

Display Type:

Display Label:

Disable Dialog Close:

Label:

Top Margin:

Pixels

Bottom Margin:

Pixels

Left Margin:

Pixels

Right Margin:

Pixels

Background Color:

Text Color:

Font:

Background Url:

Background Repeat:

Background Size:
Background Attachment:

CSS Style:

Resources

Layout:

Photo Margin:

Pixels

Include Names:

Sort on Upload:

Disable Image Downloads:

Disable Image Sharing:

Display Time:

seconds

Transition Time:

seconds

Autoplay:

Disable Controls:

Watermark Placement:

Thumbnail Display Size: For info on how to arrange or delete images, click:

Markdown is a popular plain text formatting syntax used by Mad Mimi and others. Markdown is useful because you can create text on your apps that works well across a variety of devices. MyPhotoApp uses a markdown variant called GFM. You can click on the link Mastering Markdown to learn more.

Here is a link to a Knowledge Base Article that describes the various link types you can use.

Optionally, you can add an initial password for apps that are required before they can be opened.

App Password:

By default, other MyPhotoApp users cannot make a copy of your app so they can use it to build their own app. If you want to share this app with other users, put the email addresses they use to login to MyPhotoApp, separated by a comma, in the box below that have permission to copy your app. If you want to permit everyone, just put a * in the box.

Once you shared the app with someone, tell them to get a copy of your app, in their builder, click on the create app button, give it a name, and then enter in the shared template field.

Examples:
*Everyone can copy your app if they know the name.jim@gmail.com, john@yahoo.comJim and John can copy the app if they know the name.

Optionally, you can set an expiration date after which the app will no longer be able to be opened. The date specified will be the last date the app will work.

Expiration Date:

Photo Caption

Optionally, you can specify a link that when the photo is touched, it will take them to a webpage. This is useful for coupon images you may include in your app.

Enter URL in box below and click Save.
Make thumbnail the link instead of the photo
Open link in new window

Note: This works on iPhone, iPad, iPod and some, but not all, Android devices depending on manufacture/software level.

If you want the link to dial a telephone number, enter the URL: tel:xxxxxx where xxxx is the number to dial.

If you want a page to display when the image is pressed, enter the URL: page:xxxx where xxxx is the label of the page.

New User Orientation 1st Column

New User Orientation:Builder TourGetting Started VideoRosetta StoneGetting Started GuideBrand and Color Scheme Guide

Apps

CreateApp

CreateFolder

App Navigator

Layout

Add Section

Layout Settings

Save As Template

Quick Setup

Layout Sections

Visual Design

Publish

App Icon

.jpg

Photo Trash

App Settings

Title:

Tags:

Select the particular email campaign you want to assign to this app.

Email Campaign:

Please be patient.

App Renames, App Duplication, and New Template Save operations can take a while... several minutes.
The time is proportional to the number of images you have in your app.

Save your current layout (sections, content, color scheme) in one of two ways:

Default Template

This is the template that you would normally use when creating a new app. All content is saved except gallery images.

New Template

Choose this option to save as a new named template that you will be able to select when you create new Apps. It is good practice to remove all images from your app that you do not need in your template so that when you save or use your template, it is faster.

Name:

Note: to update an existing template, you should select it from the navigator and edit it.

Restore System Template

Click this button if you have made changes to the default template and want to use the default MPA template again.

Note: Pressing restore system template will apply the changes to the currently selected App.

Apps Saved as templates will appear in the App Navigator with the suffix _template added to their name. You can keep your templates separate from the your Apps by creating a new Template folder to hold them.

When your apps are shared on facebook, the SEO text you enter will be displayed for all to see. So make sure the SEO text makes sense to a human. If you make changes after you shared an app on facebook and the changes are not reflected,
you will need to refresh the facebook cache.

Computer Max Width:

px

The maximum width that the app will use on a computer screen.

Disable Install:

Normally, clients are prompted to be install the app on their device. Checking this box will remove the prompt. Disabling install will also disable caching of images on the device.

Accordion Left Margin:

px

Set the left margin for the Accordion section toggle.

Font:

APP Background

Background Url:

Repeat:

Size:

Computer Background

Background Url:

Repeat:

Size:

Resources

CSS Style:

Upload a logo file. Uploads take effect immediately and only effect this app. If you want to change the logo for all future apps, use the quick setup option on the builder tab.

.jpg

Logo Size: Percent (reduce number to shrink logo)

Note: 1280x280 is just a recommendation and any size can be uploaded.

Or... optionally you can just use some text for your logo and not use an image.

Logo Text:

Upload a file that can be referenced in your app.

Drop a file,or click to select one

Note: Resource files are limited to 1mb in size and need simple file names with only 1 period followed by a 3 letter suffix and no special characters.

Resource List:

Font:

Example:

The rain in spain falls mainly on the plain.

MyPhotoApp uses Google Fonts. For a complete list of fonts and examples, visit https://www.google.com/fonts. Default is the normal MyPhotoApp font.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 012345679

Photo Margin:

Pixels

Link:

New Window:

If you want the link to dial a telephone number, enter the URL: tel:xxxx where xxxx is the number to dial.

If you want a page to display when the image is pressed, enter the URL: page:xxxx where xxxx is the label of the page.

New window will have the link open in a new window on a computer.

Tree View:

Normally all your public app icons are displayed. If you select the tree view option, then public apps within a folder will not be initially displayed, but their folder will and you will need to click on the folder to see the public apps inside the folder.

Label:

Page Sections

Visual Design

Display Label:

(Display the label on the app)

Display Bar:

(display menu as a bar)

Always Visible:

(Menu is always Visible)

Menu Position:

Background Color:

transparent

Icon Color:

Exclude Pages:

The menu section is a special section that produces a side menu for your app/website and lets you select pages to be displayed. The menu uses the labels of the panel for the menu item. Menus can be up to 2 levels deep. Panels with a name without a : in the name is a 1 level menu. To create a 2 level menu,
create a panel with a : in it like: level1:level2 . When the menu comes up, only level1 is displayed and then when a person clicks/touches on level1, level2 will be displayed. Usually when you have a level 2, you will have multiple panels with the same level1 value.

Height:

URL:

Enter the complete url, including the http:// .

Note that many websites, such as pinterest for example, do not permit their web page to be viewable in a browser iframe. The builder
will attempt to detect that and give you a warning message if the url you enter doesn't support iframes.

Height:

URL:

Enter the complete url, including the http:// pointing to the PDF document you wish to display.

Note: PDF sections will prevent the app from being able to be viewed offline.

Height:

Border Color:

Title:

Placeholder:

The note section lets you add a text box where the user can add notes to the app. The notes are persistent on the device, meaning that the app will remember what has been typed.

On mobile devices, when viewing an app in a web browser vs viewing the app once it is installed are treated like two separate devices.

Label:

URL:

This section adds a menu item to the menu. If a URL is specified, the menu item when clicked will immediately take the user to the url. If a URL is not specified, it will cause the app to scroll to this section. This section is not visible on the app, just on the Menu created by the menu section. The label is used as the menu item.

Enter the complete url, including the http:// .

Label:

Tracking System

Tracking ID

MyPhotoApp has built in statistics, but you can also optionally use external usage tracking systems.

Form Instructions To User:
Select Field Types To Add To Form:
Form Fields:

Form Help Info:

Submit Button:

Submit Color:

Success URL:

Email Addr:

Send Email From:

MailChimp List:

On Submit:

Title:

Label Size:

pt

Button Icon Color:

Button Icon Size:

Icon Label Color:

Icon Label Size:

pt

You can click on a button you added to edit it. Drag/Drop to rearrange.

Type

Icon

Icon Color

Label

Syntax for various link types.Link to Web Page: http://www.xyz.comSend an email: mailto:youremail@address.comsend an email with subject: mailto:email@email.com?subject=default subjectCall on Telephone: tel:800-555-1212Send a Text Message: sms:800-555-1212To navigate to a page section: page:lable-of-pageTo display a dialog: dialog:lable-of-dialogTo download a file: download:http://url-of-file

If you put %URL% as part of the link, it will get replaced with the URL of the app. if you put %ICON% as part of the link, it will get replaced with the URL of the icon image.

A lock button will let you lock the app so it can't be viewed without a password.

Will show the gallery images that were liked (hearted).

Will pop up install instructions.

Will send your note sections via email.

Section To Toggle:

You can set a button to toggle the visibility of a layout section.

You can add a custom button to your app. Please provide the URL for the png, jpg, or svg image.

The custom button must be already designed for your apps with the correct color scheme and size. MyPhotoApp uses the icon as is and from the location you specify. So do not delete this icon as your apps will no longer be able to find it.

Here is an example URL: http://m.mp-app.com/common7/instagram-icon.png that has an instagram icon.

Here is a link to a Knowledge Base Article that describes the various link types you can use.

Here is a link to a Knowledge Base Article that describes the various link types you can use.

This section is not visible in the app, but is used to provide SEO content for search engines like google to properly place your site into their search algorithms.

Title:

Description:

Keywords:

Phrases:

Paragraph:

Adding a shopping cart section will cause all gallery sections to permit people to add images to a shopping cart.

Credit:

(If you include a print credit with your packages, enter the amount.)

Monetary Symbol:

(Enter the symbol associated with your currency.)

Instruction Prompt:

Text that will appear on the shopping cart: (usually instructions)

Enter your various print sizes and pricing you want to offer.

If you need more space for cart items, save this and edit the cart again and 2 more empty rows will appear.

Rows:

Columns:

Border Type:

Border Size:

Border Color:

Click on grid cell to edit it.

Type:

Icon:

Icon Size:

Color:

Background Color:

Align:

Vertical Align:

Caption:

Click on the icon symbol above to select a new icon.

Drag and drop a single .jpg image here, orclick this box to upload a .jpg file

Enter your HTML code:

You can add YouTube, Animoto or Vimeo videos on the bottom of the first page of your app. Enter the url of the video you want to add and click the add button. The video url must follow one of the patterns below.

The Layout of an App includes the different sections that comprise the App together with your branding information, color scheme, and contact details.

There are four buttons to choose from:

Add Section - Click on this button to add another layout section to an App. You will be prompted to choose what type of section you want to add. Different section features are available depending on the subscription level.

Layout Settings - Click this button to define the color scheme and specify SEO (search engine optimization) information for your Apps. The color scheme will be the default for the App, but this can be overridden in each section in the individual setting menus.

Save Layout - Click this button to save the layout of this App as the default layout for future apps you build. Everything, except gallery images, is saved; color scheme, layout sections and settings.
If you make further changes to the layout, without saving them, then the changes will only effect that particular app. This is useful when you want to make apps which have unique requirements, for example for another business.

Quick Setup - Click on this button to easily change your brand colors, logo or contact details This makes it quick and easy to create similar Apps in the future.

The Layout Section is a logical listing of the various sections, top to bottom, of your customized app. This is an extremely powerful feature that lets you produce highly customized apps by adding and removing sections, changing the order of sections, and changing
the properties of sections.

To reorder the sections, you simply click and drag the section you want to move up or down the column to the proper place.

Clicking on settings icon lets you modify the name of the section, the colors used, and other settings unique to the particular section type.

To duplicate the section and its settings, you can click on the duplicate icon.

You can remove a section from the layout by clicking on the trash can icon.

You can add new sections to the layout by clicking on the add section icon in the layout area above the sections.

To move a section between pages, right click (control click on a mac) on it and select the location you wish to move the section.

This section displays a preview of what your App will look like when displayed on a mobile device. You can use the scroll bar to view from top to bottom.

The visual design is not a working copy of the App, but is interactive so you can click on items to modify them. You can drag and drop photos to rearrange them and click on various sections of the app to display the settings dialog for that section. This is similar to clicking on the cog for a section in the Layouts Section area of the builder.

To produce a working copy, you need to publish your App.

The App Icon image is the image that is used as the button for the app when it is installed on a mobile device. Since buttons are square, you can select the area of the image you want to use for the button by adjusting/moving the crop window. This image is also used when the album is shared socially, like on facebook. When shared on a social site, the whole image (not just the cropped part) is shared.

You have many ways in which you can change the app icon image.

If the image is blank, it is automatically loaded with the first image that is uploaded when you are uploading images to a gallery.

You can drag images from the visual design column and drop them over the current app icon image to replace it.

You can also click on the icon or the gray area immediately adjacent to the current icon and you can select a .jpg image from your computer or you can just drag and drop a .jpg image on the current app icon to upload a new icon image file from your computer.

When you have finished designing your app, press the Publish App button to build a working copy of the app.

You can make changes to your app in the builder at any time, but the actual published app will not change until you press the Publish App button again to apply the changes. When you make
changes to an App and publish it, anyone who has the App installed on their device will see the changes you have made.

When you publish an App, you are presented with a publish status screen. To return to that screen at a later date, you can press the Publish Status button.

The Publish Options button lets you change how your Apps behave and whether you want an email sent to you when you publish Apps.

You can drag photos from the visual design area of the builder and drop them on the photo trashcan and it will delete them from your app. The photo trash can only accepts photos and no other design elements.

Clicking on the trash can has no effect.

Title: This is the default title of the app that will appear under the icon when the app is added to the homescreen of the device. When installing the app on the device, the user will be able to
override the app title with whatever they want. Changing the title of the app has no effect on the URL of the app.

Tags - Tags are words separated by spaces that are used to categorize the app so you can filter/display the apps by category on the Apps Tab. These tags are internal only and not displayed outside of the builder.

Set App Password - You can assign a password to an app. The app will not open without a person specifying the password.

Set App Expiration Date - You can optionally set a future date in which the app will automatically stop working.

App Sharing - You can share an app so that people can create a copy of your app. Great for selling app templates.

Forms let you collect information from the users of your app and they are sent to you via email. There are important things you need to know:

The form data is sent to you via email and stored for at least 30 days on the MyPhotoApp Server. You can access the data from the form data tab.

While apps continue to work if you stop subscribing to MyPhotoApp, the emails will stop being delivered. Emails will only be delivered while you have an active subscription. If you let your subscription lapse, data collected on forms are not stored on the server.

There is a per account fair use limit of 1000 form submissions a year. I don't think anyone will exceed that and I don't plan to monitor this either. However, if my email charges go over budget, then I will need to enforce a policy or apply a surcharge.

Every field you add to a form must be filled in before the app will send the form.

Forms only work when mobile devices are connected to the internet.

In order to use these features, you need to be subscribed to the professional license level features of MyPhotoApp.

Form - This section lets you add a form to your app that will prompt users for information that will be sent to you via email, or you can access from the Form Data tab.

Page - Page is a section that lets you develop multi page apps. Refer to the instructional video on their use.

Menu - Menu is a section that will permit you to be able to navigate between pages.

Tracking - The tracking section lets you track your app using using a 3rd party tool like Google Analytics or Audience.

Iframe - Iframe section will let you embed urls to other websites or content across the internet. For example, you can embed a google map to your location. Checkout the instructional video for more information.

Link - This lets you add a link to the menu. The link will appear in the menu and when pressed, will take the person to the website.

HTML - Permits you to put raw html in your apps. This is for HTML only as javascript is not permitted.

Gif - You can add an animated .gif file to your app.

Directory - This section will display your public apps. This is useful to create an app from which you can see and select your other apps.

Menu Link - Add a link to the menu.

Grid - The Grid section permits you to create content in a grid (table) layout.

Directory - Directory section lets you reference your other apps.

Coutdown Timer - Add a countdown timer on your app to show your users home much time is left to a particular event.

PDF - Permits you to add a PDF

Note - A note section permits you to record content on the mobile device and is persistent.

In the filter field, you can put in a value and only those form records that match the value is displayed. If you put data into more than one filter field, only the records that pass all the filters are displayed.

In addition to putting in a value, you can also prefix the filter value with an operator (=, !=, <, <=, >, >=) to do comparisons other than equals.

For example if you put <2020 this will compare the field and only display records that contain a value less than 2020.

Filters can use the power of regular expressions to do complex, but powerful pattern matching. Regular expressions are of the form /expression/ . A simple example is to search if a string is contained in the field. For example, if you are looking for all forms that have the word jim in a particular field, you could enter the filter /jim/ for that field.

There are various field types:

Text is a free form text field where people can enter whatever they want. For a multi row text input area, suffix the field prompt with |n where n is the number of rows you want.

Signature is a place where people can sign the form either with the mouse or their finger on touch devices. Useful for model releases and contracts.

Label is a display element that is useful to add additional information on the form or to break up the form a bit.

Radio is a radio field where only one of several choices are permitted.

Checkbox is a checkbox field where 0 or more options can be selected.

Dropdown is a selection field where 1 option can be selected.

The format of the field types, Radio, Checkbox, and Dropdown is: label|option1|option2|....|optionN ... Where Label is the prompt and the options are what they can select. For Radio or checkboxes, you can prefix or suffix the option with a \n to add a line break. For the dropdown, you can suffix the label with \n to cause the dropdown selection to appear on the next line.

Basic - The basic subscription lets you build basic apps quickly and easily. A basic app is an app with your logo, your brand color scheme, one gallery of images, your contact info, share buttons, and copyright information. Just the basics to provide your clients with a photo app. Simple and quick. Great edition if you are just getting started into apps and do not need much customization. Only one brand is supported. Apps are only active while you have an active subscription.

Regular - The regular subscription increases the power over the basic version by letting you totally customize your apps by including value added content options such as, additional buttons, text, music and videos to your apps. It also lets you arrange the presentation order to totally customize your apps.

Professional - This professional version has all of the features of the regular subscription, but with the added enhanced abilities such as interacting with your clients with forms and creating mobile websites with multiple pages. You can create great apps suitable for other businesses as an additional income stream for your business. There are no additional fees or surcharges for making apps for other businesses.

You can upgrade at any time by purchasing a new subscription. Time remaining on your current subscription will be prorated and added to your new subscription.

To Rearrange the images, just drag and drop them to the location you want them.

To delete one image, just drag it to the trash can.

To delete multiple images, click on images to highlight them and then click on the trash can to delete the highlighted images.

Right click on images to edit their caption or links.

Forms let you collect information from the users of your app. There are important things you need to know:

The form data is sent to you via email and stored for 30 days on the MyPhotoApp Server. You can access the data from the form data tab.

While apps continue to work if you stop subscribing to MyPhotoApp, forms are no longer emailed or stored on the server.

Forms only work when mobile devices are connected to the internet.

Form Field Types:

Text Line Input: Input a single line of text.

Text Box Input: Input many lines of text.

Checkbox: Select multiple choices from a list.

Radio Button: Select only one choice from a list.

Select Dropdown: Select one choise from a dropdown list.

Text Output (Markdown): Display output on the form.

Net Promoter Score: NPS input - good for surveys.

Likert Scale: Likert scape input - good for surveys.

Signature: Lets the user sign the form.

Email: Like a Text Line Input, but also validates that the input looks like a valid email address.

Image: Lets users upload an image to submit along with the form.

Liked Images: This is a hidden field and not displayed on the form. But when the form is submitted, any gallery images that were liked, their names will be submitted along with the form.

Client Reply Email: This is a hidden field and not displayed on the form. When the form is submitted, the text in this box is emailed to the user. This uses markdown syntax so you can create pretty emails.

This section is where you create new apps, or new folders in which to organize your apps. Apps and Folders are displayed in the Apps Navigator section.

When you create a new app or folder, they are placed at the top of the list for easy access.

The first part of the navigator is a search box where you can type to search for a specific app. Once you find the app, you click on it to select it.

The second part of the navigator lets you select an app to work on and organize your apps into folders. The selected app is highlighed with a blue background bar.

You can select an app by clicking on its name. Clicking on a folder will open and close it.

Folders are denoted by Bold text. Folders can have apps or other folders in them. If the folder is not empty, it is prefixed with ► and you can click on it to open the folder and view the contents.

You can organize your apps and folders by dragging and dropping them. You can drag apps or folders and drop them on folders to place the contents inside of a folder. Moving apps between folders does not change their URL so it won't effect any person who has already installed your app. This permits you to be able to freely move your apps between folders as the current situation dictates.

You can rename or delete apps or folders by right clicking on them. On a mac, control click on the app or folder name.

When you right click on an app, you can also make it public which means that the app will be displayed on the directory section.

You can tidy up the navigator by closing all the folders by clicking on the icon.

You can sort your apps alphabetically by clicking on the icon. Folders will be sorted below apps.

Enter the search string to find your app. The string will search for matches looking at the tags or the app name.

Don't Cache Images
If you checkmark this option, app won't be cached on devices and as such they will only be able to be used when connected to the internet.
Useful if you are changing your apps often or you want to be able to delete the app and your clients no longer be able to view their app on their devices. If caching is turned off, app install statistics are not captured.

Wait For Images To Download
Normally the app on the devices starts as soon as possible and loads images in the background.
If you check this, the app won't start the first time till all images have been loaded on the device into the cache.
This will insure that the app will work even when offline without having to first view all the images.
This is accomplished at the expense of a quick startup. This only works in IOS devices (e.g. iPhone).

Send Publish Email
MyPhotoApp will send you an email with the client letter when you publish your app. If you have an auto responder on, please turn it off for emails coming from MyPhotoApp.com otherwise I will get spammed with curtesy emails each time you publish an app.

Optimal Quality
MyPhotoApp optimizes the the images for app loading speed and image quality. There is a slight trade off on image quality so that the app loads quickly. If you prefer image quality over app loading speed, check this checkbox and that will disable the speed optimizations in favor of utmost image quality.

First Access: Last Access:

You can edit the sample email to match your brand. Be sure to include the text %LINK% as it will be replaced with the url of the app
for your client to click on.
Click this button if you make changes and want to use the default email again.

Here is a sample email you can copy and paste into an email for your client. You can click edit on the right to customize it.

Welcome!

Don't forget to change your password by clicking on the setup tab and view the welcome email and click on the verify link to confirm your email address.

If you are new and don't know what to do next, just click on the Wizard Tab above and build a basic app quickly and easily just by following step by step instructions.

When you are ready to unleash the power of MyPhotoApp, click on to watch a 7 minute introduction video. You will be building awesome apps in no time.

Build Better Apps Faster!

Need Help?

If you need help, click on the help button in the upper right where you can search the knowledge base inside of MyPhotoApp or submit a support ticket to report a problem or request assistance.

Knowledge Base

Click on Knowledge Base to open a new browser window that will provide you access to our knowledge base where you can search on frequently asked questions and maybe get immediate answers to your questions. If you can't find your answer, you can click on the Submit a request link in the upper right hand side of the knowledge base site to open a support ticket.

Support Ticket

If you can't find the answer to your question on the Knowledge Base, you can also open a support ticket easily by sending an email with your question or issue to support@myphotoapp.zendesk.com. We strive to be prompt (within a few hours between the hours of 8am and 10pm eastern time US, Monday through Friday) with our replies. If you don't hear back within 24 hours, then something is wrong. Check your spam folder, or hit us up on the facebook group.

Community Support Group

We have an active facebook group. It is a great place to learn and discuss with other MyPhotoApp users on how to use apps to enhance your business. Please join in on the conversation.

3rd Party MyPhotoApp Courses

Using the MyPhotoApp Builder to create effective lead pages that will attract more clients and grow your photography business

How To Use MyPhotoApp Videos

Building Your First App (7 minutes)

Branding and Color Scheme (2 minutes)

Adding Sections (4 minutes)

The Navigator (5 minutes)

MyPhotoApp High Level Tour (5 minutes)

Builder Details (21 minutes)

Sharing APP Via Text Message (3 minutes)

Enhanced Forms (15 minutes)

Custom Sections (3 minutes)

Extracting Form Data (6 minutes)

Markdown Section (5 minutes)

Building Apps For Other Businesses (5 minutes)

Mobile Websites - The Page Section (8 minutes)

Page Navigation With Menu Section (5 minutes)

Page Navigation with Buttons Or Text (5 minutes)

IFrame Section - Embed Web Content (5 minutes)

Forms and Pages (4 minutes)

The Basic Subscription (1 minute)

Proofing App - Send Selected Images (5 minutes)

Referral Program - get free months added to your account!

Share your Brand ID with new users and get a $50 credit added to your account.
Have them enter your Brand ID in the coupon code field when they are subscribing and they will get a free month on a yearly regular subscription or a bonus 2 months on a yearly professional subscription.
You in return will receive a $50 credit added to your account.

What's New?

December 4th, 2016 - Version 8.5

Enhanced the image section to permit you to add text over the image and change the opacity.

The shopping cart has been enhanced so you can change the prompt at the bottom, add/subtract qty in cart, and collect name, email, address, and phone

Add permissions to app template sharing. So you can now make apps and only share them other MyPhotoApp users that you select.

Added a title section so you can add beautiful section titles to your app

Added the ability to display a message when the countdown timer has reached zero.

Ability to sort the columns on the forms tab and display thumbnail of images collected on forms.

Able to hide the 1st column of the builder.

A visual design tablet view in the builder.

In the builder, the Visual Design height grows to match layout sections height

The accordion section symbol has been replaced from being to a when closed and when open.

November 19th, 2016 - Version 8.4

Order Taking Shopping Cart

Added Ability To View Image Sharing Statistics

7 Day Trial Period For New Users (Reduced from 30 days)

Ability to specify your timezone. Form emails will use your local timezone.

Added over 900 new button icons from the Material Design icon collection.

Added Grid (table) Section Type

Adding SEO section to provide enhanced seo content in your apps. Mostly useful for when you want to create a mobile website.

If you create an app called, index, it will be the default app for the brand. Great for mobile websites with a custom URL.

Ability to caption image sections for SEO purposes

Offline Forms -- if the device is offline when a form is submitted, the form data will be saved and transmitted then next time the app is started and connected to the Internet. Useful for creating an app
to collect leads while at an event that does not have internet connectivity.

More Monthly Subscription Options (Regular and Basic)

Ability to automatically send people to paypal after submitting a form.

Able to specify the font size for the buttons section label

Ability to rearrange the order of the buttons in a button section.

Ability to move sections into and out of pages by right clicking (control click on a mac) the section name in Layout Sections area.

When going to a page, the top of the page is scrolled to.

You can change the opacity of image sections

May 29th, 2016 - Version 8.3 patch

Forms Data sorted by Date.

May 5th, 2016 - Version 8.3

Minor Bug fixes (CustomURL, app slideshow size, published count not reset when app is duplicated or loaded from template)

Added New User Orientation on builder screen

April 23rd, 2016 - Version 8.2

Added Font Awesome 4.6.1 Icons (snapchat for example)

Enhanced Custom Domain Support (URL's without brands in them)

Added the ability to specify a default app for a brand. This is the app that will be displayed if the app name is not specified on the url.

Form submission of liked images removes the suffix id (e.g. _nn), sorts, and removes duplicates (which occurs when you create multiple versions of an app and repeated uploads of the same image)

April 1st, 2016 - Version 8.1

Brought back the wizard (much enhanced) to help new users build basic apps in a step-by-step guided manner.

Added QR Code display on publish status button.

Logo can be text instead of an image.

January 31st, 2016 - Version 8.0 (Text Messaging Support)

Text Messaging

Ability to save custom sections from the section setting panel.

Ability to rename custom sections.

Gallery Photo Captions

Auto rotate images if needed during upload

Ability to specify a section display type as a dialog - a popup

Ability to specify what happens to a form once it has been submitted - clear fields, hide, and hide forever

Ability to not be copied on client reply emails

Ability to add CSS Styling to an app or a section. For example, add a gradient background.

Section background URL's can be fixed.

When forms are submitted, they can hide the page they are in.

January 24th, 2016 - Version 7.9

More control over menu section positioning and look.

Updated fontawesome to 4.5 - more button icons

Added the ability to specify a background image on computers

Removed "save layout" button and replaced with "Save Template As" to make it easy to create templates and avoid confusion between layouts and Templates

Changed the semantics of changing the logo image in the logo section to only affect the current app

Bug Fixed: Markdown Links would not honor app link colors

December 28th, 2015 - Version 7.8

Improvements to Referral Program - Use of Account Credits.

Added Triptych and Diptych gallery layouts.

November 29th, 2015 - Version 7.7

Sync Folders and Galleries - Drag a folder and drop it on a gallery upload and the gallery will sync with the folder. Only works in Chrome.

Improved Help Interface - lets you view knowledge base text while able to use the builder.

November 11th, 2015 - Version 7.6

Ability to Watermark Images during upload.

Ability to send liked photos back to photographer via a form

Button option to display liked images only

When a form has been submitted, an automated email can be sent to the person who submitted the form.

When a form is submitted which solicits an email address, it can be added to your Mail Chimp account.

Easier to generate referrals by using a URL with your referral code -- see the help panel for more info.

Treat .jpeg files like .jpg files

Added warnings if trying to use builder on mobile device or downlevel browsers

Integration with Postmark to customize the "from" address for form emails.

Dialogs - You can have a hidden markdown section display as a popup.

November 1st, 2015 - Version 7.5

This release is a "polish" release where I polished the user interface to improve usability... especially for new adopters.

Improved the cosmetics a bit.

Retired The Wizard Tab -- since the builder is so easy now.

Added "Tour Bus" option on builder to help new users with MyPhotoApp Builder Layout.

Improved usability for new users to help guild them through the build process with less steps.

Added Quick Setup button on builder to ease new user setup of their brand.

Added Folder Support to organize your apps.

Added image thumbnails on image sections

Implemented caching changes to improve cache refreshes.

Gallery full screen slide show feature added back.

Ability to navigate directly to a particular page in the app from the url. Just add #pagename to the end of the URL.

Able to disable downloads on the gallery

Able to "like" photos by clicking on the heart in the full screen gallery view.

Added a directory section that will display public apps. You can now make an app that is the directory of all your public apps.

Able to mark apps as public (right click on Navigator view) and they will show up in the Directory section

October 11th, 2015 - Version 7.4 Fixpack

For Slider galleries, center images if they are smaller than the width of the app.

Ability to remove [optional] from display on optional fields.

October 6th, 2015 - Version 7.4

Ability to specify fonts and background images on sections.

Improved layout settings interface to reduce clutter by only making the options specific for the section immediately visible.

September 29th, 2015 - Version 7.3

Ability to upload images as part of form data - Enhanced Forms

Ability on the Form Data tab to delete individual submitted form data - Enhanced Forms

Clicking remember me will keep you logged in on the browser for up to 1 year unless you explicitly logout from the browser.

Increased the height of the Visual Design a bit

View of submitted forms are now in their own browser page so they can be printed nicely.

Font Support - Ability to select from 725 google fonts for the app, or the markdown section.

Text Buttons - Ability to have buttons with words in them instead of an icon.

Resources - The ability to add files to your app that you can use in html sections or as images that you can use in a markdown area or images for custom buttons or background images, or pdfs that you can link to so they are downloaded.

Menu - You can specify left and right margin spacing.

Added Background Image support for Apps.

Added Gallery Layout Option - Slider.

July 13st, 2015 - Version 7.2

Form Emails now have MarkDown sections included

Ability on the Form Data tab to view a form

Ability to specify more than one email address (up to 5) that forms should be sent to

National Language Support for Dutch for Forms

Ability to exclude Pages in the app Menu section

July 1st, 2015 - Version 7.1

Enhanced forms: (visual form editor, more field types, can specify replyto email address, optional fields, can specify email address form can be sent to instead of you...)

Ability to share templates - Other users can use your templates if you let them know the name of them.

June 1st 2014 - Version 6.0

User Settings

Your Name:Login Email Address: (Changing email address will log you out of the builder)Login Password:Time Zone:

New Brand

You currently have the most brands that you are licensed for and cannot add any additional brands. If you want more brands, please contact support.

MyPhotoApp Brands are a way to organize (logically separate) your apps. Most people only need one or two MyPhotoApp brands to work effectively. For example, if you are a photographer,
you would have one MyPhotoApp brand for your photography business, and if you create apps for other businesses, you may (but not required) create a MyPhotoApp brand for those apps. Each MyPhotoApp brand can
have unlimited marketing brands (i.e. logo, color scheme, contact info, and app look). For more info on this, check
out this Brand Knowledge Base Article.

Your license entitles you to unlimited marketing brands and MyPhotoApp brands. If you need more brands, you can purchase additional ones. Open a support ticket with your request.

To add a new brand, enter the name of the brand you would like and click the Create A New Brand Button.

Note: Once you create a brand, you cannot delete the brand if there are any apps in the brand. You will need to delete all of the apps in the brand before you can delete the brand.

New Brand Name: (One word, lower case letters or numbers, no more than 32 characters)

Note: Before using this feature, consider using a form that is set as a visible dialog. You can collect more info.

When your apps are started, they can optionally prompt the user to provide their email address. Usually this in return for some sort of special offer or entry to win something. You define the campaign here and then to activate it on the app, select the campaign on the builder page and publish.

You can setup your own URL to point to the MyPhotoApp server and have apps use your domain name in the URL.

looks_one Go to your domain name provider and in the domain setup, you add a new CNAME record and have it point to mp-app.com .
This will cause your new custom domain to be resolved to go to the MyPhotoApp server. This is not a redirect. Many people have made the mistake of doing a redirect and that will not work.

To the right is an example of creating a custom domain of what an entry for apps.cookdesignerportraits.com would look like on GoDaddy to give you an idea of what yours should look like.

looks_two Enter the custom url (without the http://) you created below. (e.g. apps.yourdomain.com) This lets MyPhotoApp know you have setup a custom URL and it will use that when generating the app link.

Custom URL:

looks_3 You can choose to have your brand as part of the URL for your apps or not. Select which URL format type you want:

Important: Once you select a URL format type and save it, you cannot switch versions at a later date without breaking apps you published on the prevision version. Type 2 is only valid for professional subscriptions and it will only work while you are a professional subscriber. Type 1 will work with regular and professional.

looks_4 Click the Verify and Save button to confirm everything is setup properly.

If you already have apps in this brand, once you verify and save the custom URL, please republish all of your apps in order for them to work properly with the new URL.

When images are uploaded to a gallery section on your app, you can have MyPhotoApp automatically watermark your gallery images. You need to upload a png file with a transparent background with the appropriate opacity. The width and height of the watermark will be placed on the uploaded gallery
photo as is and will only be resized if the photo that you uploaded is smaller in width or height. Once you upload a watermark, you will have an option on the gallery settings section on the builder tab to select the placement of the watermark on the uploaded images. More information about watermarks are located in our Watermark Knowledge Base Entry.

Postmark is an email service located at PostMarkApp.com.
If you setup an account there, you can add your postmark credentials here and MyPhotoApp will
use your credentials to send emails. This will permit emails to come from you, and not from MyPhotoApp. You can have multiple credentials which is useful if you are building apps with forms for other businesses.

Name: (Any name you want to identify this account)Signature Email: (Found in postmark under sender signatures)The email address can be of the form xxxx@yyy.com or to make it fancier, it can be something like: xxxx photography <xxx@yyy.com>

API Key: (Found in postmark under credentials)Be sure to enter the SERVER API found under the server credentials tab in postmark, not the API Token found on the postmark account tab. If you enter the wrong key, you will get an error code 10.

Note: This is currently an experimental feature. We only have a US number while we prototype this, but expect to expand that to other countries. The text number could possibly change or stop working at any time. This is a free feature for professional users,
but if this gets popular, other arrangements may be required. If you like this feature, please join in on the discussion on the facebook group.

You can have your clients text to (502) 547-1234 and have the following message be sent to them.

Enter the text reply message and optionally include the url of an app (e.g. your brand app) and press Save Message to store the changes.

Text Reply Message:

You are currently on a monthly paypal subscription. If you wish to switch up your subscription, please go to paypal and cancel your subscription first.

Purchase A Subscription

looks_one Select the subscription type: (Click for information about the various types.)

Monthly Subscription Options

Monthly payments are a subscription service and your credit card will be automatically billed each month until you manually cancel it.

Monthly Professional Subscription - $30 Per Month

Monthly Regular Subscription - $20 Per Month

Monthly Basic Subscription - $15 Per Month

Basic subscription unavailable because you have more than 1 brand

For monthly subscriptions, your apps are hosted for as long as you continue paying your monthly subscription.

Yearly Subscription Options

Yearly subscriptions are one-time payments. Each year you will need to initiate a payment to continue to use MyPhotoApp.

looks_two If you have a coupon or referral code, enter it here and click apply coupon.

Coupon:

looks_3 Verify subscription and amount you will be charged:

12 Month Pro License $149

looks_4 Click to place order using PayPal.

You must use paypal for automatic billing options. If you want to use your credit or debit card, press the paypal button and then select the "pay with debit or credit card" option.

If you are renewing your subscription, you can do so at any time and not lose any time remaining on your account if you are renewing with the same level subscription. For example, if you have 10 days remaining on your professional account and you purchase a year professional subscription, you will have a year added to the 10 days left on your account. If you are upgrading, for example, going from a regular to a professional, your time remaining will be a prorated amount.

Redeem Voucher

If you already paid for a voucher (license key) from a 3rd party, enter it here:

Voucher:

App: Metric: Chart Type:

First Access: Last Access:

Legend:

Other: Other types of devices including laptop and desktop computers.

Views: The number of times that the app was displayed on the device. If the app was accessed while the device was not connected to the internet, the access will not be recorded.

Installs: The approximate number of times the app was installed on a device. If an app was installed on one device, then deleted, and reinstalled, the device would be counted twice. It takes more than one activation on a device to detect that it was installed. Unfortunately, if a person opens an app on a device in a browser, and refreshed the browser, the app appears like it was installed on the device.

Devices: The approximate number of unique devices that the app has been viewed on. Devices are also browsers. So if a person uses one computer and two different browsers to view the app, the device count will be increased by 2. If people clear their cookies on their browser, then it will act like a new device in the statistics.

Installs and devices are approximations since for security reasons, devices won't inform when an app was truly installed nor will it identify itself as unique. MyPhotoApp uses hints to determine installs and devices which can be manipulated by a user.

This dialog lets you setup your brand quickly. To setup your brand, you need to specify a logo, some contact info and your brand color scheme. You can just change what you want now and come back later if you so choose.

1. Logo: Upload your logo .jpg file. Either drag and drop your new logo over the box below, or click below to select a new logo .jpg file. Recommended size of logo is 1280x280 pixels, but it can be anything you want.

Changes take effect immediately. Make your changes and click the Done button below.

Changes on this screen only takes effect for the current and new apps that you create but does not change your previous apps.

There are more settings you can change by clicking on the Layout Settings button on the builder tab.

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Filter:

You are using the wizard to build an app named .

If you want to create another app, press the

button to start building another app in the Wizard.

This wizard will let you build basic apps easily in a step-by-step manner. This is aimed towards first time users to ease them into the app building process. Once you are ready to unleash the power MyPhotoApp, please visit the builder tab.

Apps need to have a name. Please enter the name you wish to call this app. App names are one word that are 3 to 32 characters long and can contain alphabetic characters, numbers or the underscore characters.

Enter Your App Name:

Once you have entered the name, press Next to continue with the app building process.

Here's the current image logo for this app. To upload a new logo file, either drag and drop your new logo over the box below, or click below to browse and select a new logo to upload from your computer.
Logos must be .jpg files. Recommended size for a logo is 1280x280 pixels, but it can be anything you want.

Or, if you don't have a suitable logo file at this time, just enter the name of your company below and we will put that at the top of the app for you. If you want to use a logo image, leave the Logo Text field below blank.

Logo Text:

Select your color scheme for your app.

Background Color:

Text Color:

Link Color

Button Icon Color:

If you would like your app to have contact buttons that people can push to contact you, enter your email and/or telephone below.

Email:

Telephone:

You can add images to your app.

Drag and drop images here, or
click this box to upload .jpg files

You can change the way that the thumbnail images are displayed by selecting different layouts.

Image Layout:

If you don't have any images at this time, you can click on the add sample image button that will add an image to your app. There are 5 different sample images you can add.

If you would like to delete all of your images and start over, you can press following button. You can use the builder tab to delete individual images or rearrange them.

Publishing Your App

Congratulations! Your basic app has been published!

Here is the URL of your app: .

You can click on this link to open a new window and try out a working copy of your app on your computer. With the working copy, you can click on a particular image to make it full screen.

You can either email or text this url to your mobile device to load the app. Instructions on how to install the app will appear on your device. Please use Chrome for Android devices or Safari for IOS devices.

When you are ready to build more sophisticated apps or enhance this one, you can do so in the builder tab.

Template Bazzar

Coming in 8.6. Want to get involved in creating templates to share or sell? Open a support ticket.

Here is the QR Code for your app.

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Welcome! I am Jim Cook, and this is a silly photograph of me. While I like to have fun, I am serious about congratulating you on exploring the value MyPhotoApp will
bring to your business. You made a great decision.

Free Trial Membership

You have left on your trial membership. Kick the tires, create a bunch of apps, share with your clients, and see how useful MyPhotoApp can be. I know you are going to love it.

Build an awesome marketing App to showcase your business in a way no ordinary business card ever can. Then build a bunch of client specific apps, put them in the hands of your clients, and gauge their reaction. You will immediately see the value of MyPhotoApp.

The trial membership is like the professional level of MyPhotoApp, except that if you decide not to subscribe, the apps you create will expire at the end of the trial period and eventually will be permanently deleted. Which is fair don't you think?

When you are ready to subscribe, close this dialog and click on the license tab and select one of our low price monthly options.

If you have a question or need help... click on the help button in the upper right hand corner to search our help knowledge database for instant results. You can also use the help button to reach me
directly by submitting a support ticket. I am here to help and will respond promptly.

If you subscribe today, you can save 10% on your subscription cost by using the coupon code JOINTODAY on the license tab. Note:You do not lose any of your free trial time by subscribing today. Click on the license tab and subscribe today to save!

p.s. Please consider joining the MyPhotoApp Facebook Group where the cool kids hang out and discuss how they are using apps in their businesses.

Congratulations!

You have created your first app and are now on the builder screen. It can be a little intimidating for the first time as there are a lot of options.

On the builder screen, you can click on the Tour Bus icon to get a quick overview of the builder screen layout.

If you get lost, you can always click on the help button or go to the training tab and view the getting started videos.

Expiration Reminder

Your account is going to expire in days.

Please go to the license tab and renew your subscription today.

What is your name?

Hi. My name is Jim Cook. But I don't know your name. Please click on the setup tab and enter your name so when we correspond, I know who you are. Thanks!

Before you can publish your app, you need to verify your email address. In the welcome email we sent to you, there was a verify link. Please click on that to verify your email address.

If you didn't receive your email, check your spam folder. The email was sent to , if perhaps you have a typo in your email address, you can go to the setup tab and correct your email address.

You can click to have MyPhotoApp resend the email to you.

If there were one thing that we could do that would make doing business with us better or more beneficial for you, what would that be?

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